One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.

I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.

I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.